EDEL 561 Class Readings
Class #1 – September 13
Dewey, J. (1897). My pedagogic creed. School Journal, 54, 77-80. http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm

Bobbitt, F. (2004). Scientific method in curriculum-making. In D. J. Flinders & S. J. Thornton (Eds.), The curriculum studies reader 2nd Ed. (pp. 9-16). New York, NY: Routledge. http://blogs.ubc.ca/ewayne/files/2009/02/bobbitt_001.pdf

Kanu, Y., & Glor, M. (2006). Currere’ to the rescue? Teachers as ‘amateur intellectuals’ in a knowledge society. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 4(2), 101-122.
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jcacs/article/view/17007/15809

Class #2 – September 20
Egan, K. (2003). What is curriculum? Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 1(1), 9-16. http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jcacs/article/view/16845/15651

Aoki, T. (2005). Teaching as indwelling between two curriculum worlds. In W. Pinar &. R. Irwin (Eds.), Curriculum in a new key: The collected works of Ted T. Aoki (pp. 159-165). Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [eBook] *To access this eBook enter the title of the book in the NEOS catalogue search box on the U of A Library home page http://www.library.ualberta.ca/
Click on the appropriate book title then on the item that says “electronic resource.” Click on eBook full text on the left side of the screen. Flip through to the assigned pages.

Class #3 – September 27
Egan, K. (1996). Competing voices for the curriculum. In M. Wideen & M.C. Courtland (Eds.), The struggle for curriculum: Education, the state, and the corporate sector (p. 7-26). Burnaby, BC: Institute for Studies in Teacher Education, SFU. http://www.educ.sfu.ca/kegan/read823/voices.html

Chambers, C. (1999). A topography for Canadian curriculum theory. Canadian Journal of Education, 24(2), 137-150.
http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/CJE24-2.htm (scroll to the article and click on it)

Class #4 – October 4
Mackay, B. & Firmin, M. (2008). The historical development of private education in Canada. Education Research & Perspectives, 35 (2), 57-72.
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McLean, L. (2010). “There is no magic whereby such qualities will be acquired at the voting age”: Teachers, curriculum, pedagogy and citizenship. Historical Studies in Education, 22(2), 39-56.
http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/view/2388

Lemisko, L., & Clausen, K. (2006). Connections, contrarieties, and convolutions: Curriculum and pedagogic reform in Alberta and Ontario, 1930-1955. Canadian Journal of Education, 29(4), 1097-1129.
http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE29-4/CJE-4-LemiskoClausen.pdf

Coulter, R. (2005). Getting things done: Donalda J. Dickie and leadership through practice. Canadian Journal of Education, 28(4), 669-699.
http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/CJE28-4.htm

von Heyking, A. (1998). Selling progressive education to Albertans, 1935-53. Historical Studies in Education, 10(1/2), 67-84.
http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/issue/view/142/showToc

Class #5 – October 11
Alberta school curriculum historical bibliography: 1885-1985. Retrieved from http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/albertaschoolcurrhistbibelementary

Class #6 – October 18
Osborne, K. (1982). “The Canadian curriculum”: A Response to Barrow. Canadian Journal of Education/Revue, 7(2), 94-109
http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/pdfplus/1494288.pdf?acceptTC=true

Werner, W. (1995). Reforming the Canadian curriculum. The Curriculum Journal, 6(2), 225-233. http://www.tandfonline.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/doi/pdf/10.1080/0958517950060206

Winter, E., &, McEachern, W. (2001). Dealing with educational change: The Ontario experience. Education, 121 (4), 682-688.
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Class #7 – October 25
Chambers, C. (2006). “Where do I belong?” Canadian curriculum as passport home. Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, 2. 21pp. http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/jaaacs/vol2/chambers.htm

Kanu, Y. (2002). In their own voices: First Nations students identify some cultural mediators of theirlearning in the formal school system.The Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 48(2), 98-121.
http://ajer.synergiesprairies.ca/ajer/index.php/ajer/article/view/315

Class #8 – November 1
Kanu, Y. (2003). Curriculum as cultural practice: Postcolonial imagination. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 1(1), 67-81. http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jcacs/article/view/16851/15657

Willinsky, J. (1994). After 1492-1992: A post-colonial supplement for the Canadian curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 26(6), 613-629. http://www.tandfonline.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/doi/pdf/10.1080/0022027940260603

Classes #9 - #12
Look for additional readings to be posted based on presentation topics.

Class #13 – December 6
Alberta Teachers’ Association. (2010). Changing landscapes for learning our way to the next Alberta: Shaping a preferred future 2012-2020. Retrieved from
http://www.teachers.ab.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/ATA/Publications/Albertas-Education-System/Changing%20Landscapes%202010-2030.pdf

Scardamalia, M. (2001). Big change questions: “Will educational institutions, within their present structures, be able to adapt sufficiently to meet the needs of the information age”? Journal of Educational Change, 2(2), 171-176.
http://www.springerlink.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/content/g5815380g1726222/fulltext.pdf

Young, J. (2004). Reflecting today, creating tomorrow: The dual role of public education. Education Canada, 44(4), 14-16.
http://www.cea-ace.ca/sites/cea-ace.ca/files/EdCan-2004-v44-n4-Young.pdf